Picture update

For anyone who cares, I added Katie's birthday pictures and one on the blog about Leslie's birthday. (It's back at the end of July)

Love this quote!

I found this quote on another blog and I absolutely love it! One I definately need to remember, especially right this minute as my girls are walking home from 7-11, by themselves! (With their slurpees of course)



A mother is not a person to lean on
but a person who makes leaning unnecessary!

Need some help

Ok, for those of you who are smarter than me (which is most of you), why have pictures on my old posts disappeared? I was just looking back through older posts and a lot of the pictures have disappeared. Does anyone know, is this something I did, or is it a blogger problem? I want to have those records so I need to figure out a way to fix it.

thanks!

Happy Birthday, Katie!

August 11th was Katie's birthday, I wrote this post and have been trying to get pictures uploaded, but who knows if that will ever happen. So, I'll post it now, and maybe come back and add some pictures.

Wow! I can hardly believe it's been 9 years. Having a first baby is such a life changing event. Katie is a wonderful little girl. Such a mothering, helpful person. She gets up every morning and makes breakfast for herself and Maddie and Bevan (she won't even let me help). She wants to do everything for herself, every once in a while I can talk her into letting me help her with her hair. She thinks she's a grown up, but I still want to have her stay "my girl" for a while longer.

For her 9th birthday she and I went and got her ears pierced.



She was also able to pick out another pair of earrings.
After getting her ears pierced we went to a Mexican restaurant for Shrimp Quesadillas (Katie loves shrimp). Grandma Austin, Grandma Meikle, Bevan, Maddie, Doug, Grandma-great Meikle and Aunt Juli joined us as well. Katie was very, very spoiled with gifts! Most of them having to do with her new ear piercings!
Then on Wed. Katie took one of her friends and we met Alesa at Cherry Hills- fun times! We didn't get home until 10:30 but the kids had a great time. I think we are finally done celebrating, but we had fun while it lasted!
What a wonderful girl Katie is and how lucky I am to be her mom! Love you, Katie!

Finally, my green scooter!

I've wanted a green scooter for a long time now. Of course, I would look really funny driving around on it with my three kids and all their paraphernalia. So, I've never really worked hard on getting it. Last night my mom, Juli and Doug took the kids and went to the park for a dinner/fundraiser for a young father in our town who got in a motorcycle accident and received brain damage. While there they could purchase raffle tickets for prizes that were donated. Guess what, we won, my scooter. Here it is:

Ok, so I won't really fit on it, but the kids are having a blast! I think they are now the most popular kids on the block. :)

We also won a pink bike that is just perfect for Maddie.

And my mom won a basket full of Biolage hair care products! What lucky people.

Weighing In!

I'm only doing this to keep myself accountable. I have not lost any weight this month. BUT, after the CRaZy month that I've had, I'm ok with that. We're starting over. My goal is 10 pounds by the end of August.

Let's Get Started!

I've been telling you that I have a lot to tell you and that I've been way busy. I guess it's time I start telling you about all that's been going on. So, I'll start with part of it. I guess that's the only way, I'm going to get it all down.

A few weeks ago our neighbor/counselor in the Bishopric call to see if he could visit with me. I knew I was in trouble! ;) A few weeks before I had been sitting in Sacrament meeting when I had the thought come to me that I would soon be in Young Women and that Sheri Egbert would be with me. I kind of brushed that off, until I got this phone call. When Mike came over he called me to be the Secretary of the Young Women, and sure enough, Sheri is the President. I'm so grateful for the preparation I had for this. Last time I was asked to be in Young Women I said yes but went home and cried. This time I was prepared and grateful for the opportunity.
We were sustained three Sundays ago. After Sacrament meeting we were set apart. What a wonderful opportunity these blessings are. In my blessing I was blessed with the ability to be detailed and thorough in my record keeping. It talked about how important those records are and how much you can know about the Young Woman through these records. I was also blessed with the ability to become friends with each of the Young Women. That this calling would not detract from my home life and responsibilities but instead will become a better wife and mother.

One of the other sisters received an amazingly detailed blessing. She was blessed with the ability to "be able to think outside the box to help a couple of young women who would be having problems in the next few weeks. As you help them through your struggles you will eventually be able to see their success." What a cool blessing! But I have to admit, I think I would have been scared!

I then left town for two weeks (more on that to come). When I got home I immediately had a bunch of Young Women stuff to do. Then to top that off, I had PTA to organize. What a crazy time! I am the President at Katie's school and this time of year is very busy, trying to get everyone trained and set up meetings, etc... I think I am on top of these things but I know that they will continue to keep me busy. This next week I have 3 Young Women activities/meetings to attend and 2 PTA meetings. Yup, I'll be busy! But, it will be fun!

So, that's the start. I'll tell you about my trips later. Maybe tomorrow...